INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

Summary

You will serve as a INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER in the Mission Systems Group, Avionics Engineering Department, Avionics Systems Engineering Division, Tactical Avionics Branch of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. You will be supporting Long Range Fires and Control.

Duties

• You will ensure that all technical and operational requirements are met for the development, integration, and testing of applicable avionics and related modifications.
• You will coordinate specific avionics systems engineering efforts within the assigned Program Office, at contractor facilities, and with the Fleet support teams.
• You will determine feasibility of integrating various avionics systems with specific attention to the effects on systems due to the unique aircraft environment and operational tactics required by the operator.
• You will facilitate teamwork between the IPTs, NAVAIR competencies, DoD Organizations, Fleet customers, and contractor organizations to implement the proper integration of new and updated hardware and software systems.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band DP-04 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1.) Senior technical leader and recognize authority in advanced engineering, functioning as a subject matter expert or Program/Project Manager for major programs in research, development, testing, evaluation, and innovation. 2.) Specific focus on long range fires and control, the role involves providing technical leadership and strategic direction for cutting-edge projects in this domain, conceiving and leading major programs, making critical trade-offs between cost, schedule, performance, and directing multi-disciplinary engineering teams. 3.) Operates with broad independence, defines objectives, reviews the work of other high-level professionals, influences agency-wide research direction, and serves as the primary technical advisor to senior leadership and high-level committees on the most advanced, high-impact initiatives in long range fires and control systems. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia,…